Baku analysts explain peacemakers' role in Lachin Corridor

The motor traffic between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh will remain by the existing road via Lachin and Shusha, but cars there will be accompanied by Russian peacemakers there, analysts from Baku believe.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Russian peacemakers, following the concluded tripartite agreement on ceasefire in the conflict zone, have taken control over the Lachin corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia, by setting up temporary posts there. On November 12, the peacemaking battalion of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) took control of Stepanakert; 10 observation posts were set up along the contact line.

Transport communication between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh will be carried out along the existing road Goris-Lachin-Shusha-Khankendi (hereinafter: the latter's Armenian name of the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh is Stepanakert, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"), Avaz Gasanov, the head of the Society for Humanitarian Studies, told the "Caucasian Knot".

According to his story, the five-kilometre width of the Lachin Corridor, indicated in the text of the Aliev-Pashinyan-Putin statement, is provided in order to exclude possible shelling from automatic weapons.

The traffic along the Lachin Corridor between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh will be accompanied by Russian peacemakers, said Zardusht Alizade, an Azerbaijani political analyst, Director of the NGO "School of Democratic Journalism".

"In all likelihood, convoys of vehicles – personal cars, trucks and other vehicles – will be formed 2-3 times during a day; and they will be accompanied by peacemakers' convoys," Mr Alizade told the "Caucasian Knot".

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 14, 2020 at 05:53 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.